Post binder

• US 20040052572A1
• Filed: 09/17/2002
• Published: 03/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Richard J. Peters
• Original Assignee: Richard J. Peters
• Inventors: Peters, Richard J.
• Application Number:
  US10/244,920
• Publication Number:
  US 20040052572A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 402/60
• CPC Class Codes: B42F 13/14 with clamping or locking means pressure bars B42F13/36

Abstract

A post binder comprising: a post unit having upstanding posts positioned to receive the usual openings in loose-leaf pages and each having a series of paired sets of external groves in close succession up along the post; and a page retainer with keyhole openings which pass the posts when the retainer is slid down onto the post unit and which lock into post when the retainer is then shifted horizontally.

Claims

1. A post binder comprising:

a post unit having a base and a plurality of posts extending perpendicular to said base and spaced apart in accordance with the spacings of openings in loose-leaf pages to be stacked on said post unit, each of said posts having a plurality of external grooves therein spaced apart in close succession along said post away from said base;

and a page retainer for overlying engagement with a stack of loose-leaf pages on said post unit, said page retainer having a plurality of openings therein spaced apart in accordance with the spacings of said posts of the post unit, each of said openings in the page retainer having a larger first portion thereof shaped and dimensioned to pass the corresponding post of the post unit when the page retainer is slid down over the posts and having a smaller second portion thereof next to said larger first portion which is shaped and dimensioned to snugly but slidably receive the corresponding post at any of said grooves therein when the page retainer is shifted horizontally after being slid down over said posts.

2. A binder post according to claim 1, wherein said grooves in the posts are arranged in paired sets of grooves in opposite sides of the respective post at the same level.

3. A post binder comprising:

a post unit having a base and a plurality of solid cylindrical posts extending perpendicularly up from said base and spaced apart in accordance with the spacings of openings in loose-leaf pages to be stacked on said post unit, each of said posts having a plurality of paired sets of external grooves in opposite sides of the post in close succession along the height of said post, the grooves of each paired sat being at the same height on the respective post;

and a page retainer for overlying engagement with a stack of loose-leaf pages on said post unit, said page retainer having a thickness slightly less than the vertical dimension of each post groove and having a plurality of keyhole-shaped openings therein spaced apart in accordance with the spacings between successive posts of the post unit, each of said openings in the page retainer having a circular first portion thereof shaped and dimensioned to pass the corresponding post of the post unit when the page retainer is slid down over said posts and having a narrower rectangular second portion thereof next to said circular first portion which is shaped and dimensioned to snugly but slidably receive the corresponding post at any of said paired sets of grooves therein when the page retainer is slid down over said posts.